Brian Viner

Brian Viner swapped London for the Herefordshire countryside, and his column ‘Country Life’ documents his attempts to chase the rural idyll. Chiefly a sports writer, he pens a weekly sports column and interview for the paper. He is the author of Ali, Pele, Lillee and Me: A Personal Odyssey Through the Sporting Seventies.

Brian Viner: Pressing all the wrong buttons

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Saturday, 17 July 2010

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Thursday, 15 July 2010

The 139th Open Championship begins today at the Home of Golf, the marvellous medieval burgh of St Andrews, and the main topic of discussion in the improbably numerous pubs and bars of the "auld grey toon" in the Kingdom of Fife is the form and more especially the mindset of the game's fallen hero, Tiger Woods.

Brian Viner: TV rivals slug it out in final battle

Monday, 12 July 2010

At last, four long weeks of football reached a glorious crescendo. This, finally, was what the 2010 World Cup had boiled down to, a head-to-head battle between two teams desperate to find peak performance when it mattered most, one led by Gary Lineker, the other by Adrian Chiles. This was it. BBC 1 v ITV 1. The big one.

Brian Viner: Gouda vs beaches: it's time to decide which side we're on

Saturday, 10 July 2010

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Formulaic TV is what people want

Wednesday, 7 July 2010

The BBC Trust, after reviewing the output of the Corporation's flagship television channels, BBC1 and BBC2, has arrived at the conclusion that they are showing too many programmes that are "formulaic" and "derivative". This news was given widespread media coverage yesterday, and we can only hope that media organisations will show the same degree of interest in the forthcoming announcement from senior sources at the Vatican, who, once they have completed their review of the output of Pope Benedict XVI, will feel obliged to report that he is overwhelmingly Catholic.

Brian Viner: Alan Shearer seems to possess all the tactical insight of Sybil Fawlty

Monday, 5 July 2010

View From The Sofa: At half-time during Paraguay v Spain, the great man found seven different ways to express his surprise at how poor the Spanish had been

Brian Viner: Wimbledon is weird – that's why it sums up England perfectly

Saturday, 3 July 2010

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Brian Viner: What's another 12 months after 74 years? Wait for a British winner goes on

Saturday, 3 July 2010

Wimbledon

Why Murray is a Brit when he wins and a Scot when he loses

Friday, 2 July 2010

Brian Viner: When the Scottish golfer Sandy Lyle won the US Masters, everyone south of Gretna thought of him as a Brit

England's fans look to Murray for redemption

Thursday, 1 July 2010

Brian Viner: After the torment of watching England's footballers limp out of the World Cup, Andy Murray gave British sports fans something to shout about at Wimbledon yesterday

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